This article was based on notes from Antonio Candido’s lectures during the several courses taught by him at FFLCH from 70’s to 80’s, synthesized here in order to be nucleus of my own postgraduate courses at this same Faculty. The selection aims to give the main concepts on the following topics: literary analysis; interpretation; comment; contributions of traditional rhetoric and poetics; texts explanation; stylistics; Auerbach’s epilogue on Mimesis; structuralism; thematic criticism; ideological analysis; literary analysis as integration.Este artigo partiu de anotações das aulas de Antonio Candido durante vários cursos ministrados por ele na FFLCH nos anos de 1970 a 1980 que foram aqui sintetizadas, no sentido de servirem como pró-memória p...